climate justice

It’s a macabre picture: tombs, headstones and wreaths, lovingly selected by family members, floating into the oblivion of the ocean, and with them the remains of loved ones uprooted from their final resting place. Some are dragged back to land, washed up on beaches on the Grenadian island of Carriacou, transforming the beautiful Caribbean shoreline into a chaotic graveyard.

Having a safe climate is becoming more of a human right globally with this week's European court decision that says countries must better protect people from climate change, something warming-hit residents of the Global South long knew, said former Ireland President Mary Robinson.

As they marched through the streets in 2019, Ashley Torres and Louis Couillard did not expect a protest would alter the trajectory of their lives.

A group of climate activists on Monday blocked the entrance to the Swedish parliament, advocating for sweeping reforms to tackle climate disasters.

International climate talks turned to a power game on Friday as dozens of world leaders including the Saudi crown prince and India's prime minister were to speak, but two of the world's most powerful men — President Joe Biden of the U.S. and China's President Xi Jinping — were glaringly absent.

Seventeen-year-old Ziya Merchant is the founder of Phasing Out Plastic Bottles, a multi-school campaign using plastic water bottles to raise awareness about climate justice.

When David He tells stories about climate impacts, the prime minister and other senior government officials pay attention.

After all the talking, time for tangible solutions?

Jacqueline L. Scott is a PhD student who researches ways to make outdoor recreation and environmentalism accessible for Black people.

Alicia Richins is a sustainability and social impact consultant based in Toronto, and a fierce advocate of the United Nations' sustainable development goals, or SDGs.

Her entry into environmental justice came by chance in 2012 when an activist asked Ingrid Waldron to research environmental racism in Nova Scotia.

A rising chorus of youth voices is growing across the front lines of climate change as they demand “loss and damage finance — now!”

António Guterres is at COP27 in Egypt for what is likely to be another blistering attack on complacency and foot-dragging by world leaders.

For the past 13 years, this spoken word poet from Victoria, B.C., has mentored hundreds of high school students at the annual Victorious Voices spoken word festival.

As the director of the Climate Justice Organizing Hub, this 24-year-old Montrealer helps thousands of Canadian volunteer climate activists learn from each other.